Chapter 98:

SARAH

There I was sitting alone at my favorite spot, California’s hottest bar, and drinking hideously on my expensive soda after being stood up.

That’s right! I've been stood up for the very first time in a long time by Robyn. It was enough for a girl to say fuck it and throw away sixteen dollars on one drink even though she didn’t have a full-time salary yet.

“What was it with men and keeping to work rather than sticking to their Fiancées anyway,” I thought to myself.

After such a hectic day, I was going to cancel but I had already postponed twice. Once for a rescheduled study group with Kathryn and the others, and the other when I was feeling under the weather. And I didn’t want to leave him hanging again, so I sucked it up and showed up only to get stood up.

I finished the rest of my drink and flagged to the bartender, “ Check please?” I called out.

“It’s already covered,”

When my eyebrows shot up, the bartender tilted her head toward a table of prepping-looking twenty-one-somethi